A low-cost ultra-wideband indoor ranging system

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 58, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3935-3942

  De Angelis, Alessio ^a   Dionigi, Marco ^a   Moschitta, Antonio ^a   Carbone, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Geolocation; Indoor ranging; Time of flight; Ultra wideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE MODE; CLOSED FORM; DISTANCE ESTIMATION; GEOLOCATIONS; INDIRECT MEASUREMENTS; INDOOR RANGING; LOWER BOUNDS; PULSE GENERATION; PULSE TRAIN; RANGING SYSTEMS; SHORT-PULSE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL EFFICIENCY; SYSTEM PROTOTYPE; THEORETICAL MODELS; TIME OF ARRIVAL ESTIMATION; TIME OF FLIGHT; TUNNEL DIODE DETECTORS; ULTRA-WIDEBAND SIGNAL; UWB TRANSCEIVER;

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; ESTIMATION; POSITION CONTROL; TUNNEL DIODES; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 77956987751     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2009.2020834     Document Type: Article

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